City of Ashes Quotes

“You never love anything like you love your children. And nothing can make you angrier.”

“Family is more than blood.”

″‘Just because you said dragon demons were extinct-’ ‘I said mostly extinct.’ Alec jabbed a finger toward him. ‘Mostly extinct,’ he said, his voice trembling with rage, ‘is NOT EXTINCT ENOUGH.‘”

“I’m pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”

“You couldn’t rip out your own DNA, no matter how much you wished you could. No matter how much it would make you happy.”

″‘I don’t want to be a man,’ said Jace. ‘I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can’t confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.‘”

″‘That does it,’ said Jace. ‘I’m going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.’ ‘Why?’ Isabelle said. ‘So you can look up ‘fun.’ I’m not sure you know what it means.‘”

″‘You might want to lie down,’ Magnus advised. ‘I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.‘”

“I’ve heard the word ‘fear’. I simply choose to believe it doesn’t apply to me.”

″‘Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,’ said Jace. ‘I’d rather stay down here and rot.‘”